"For most of my life, one of the……" — Benoit Mandelbrot

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• But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry… — Robert Browning
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• My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex… — James Buchan
• It is sometimes of God's mercy that men in the eager pursuit of worldly aggrandizement are baffled; for they are… — Henry Ward Beecher
• Many a profound genius, I suppose, who fills the world with fame of his exploding renowned errors, is yet everyday… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• We don't always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think SHOULD. We are baffled and confused… — Julia Cameron
• The fashion pages have always baffled me. In my opinion, the articles appear to be full of gobbledygook as to… — John Allen Paulos
• A cosmic mystery of immense proportions, once seemingly on the verge of solution, has deepened and left astronomers and astrophysicists… — William Broad
• The great problem of today is, how to subject all physical phenomena to dynamical laws. With all the experimental devices,… — Joseph Lovering
• The phosphorous smell which is developed when electricity (to speak the profane language) is passing from the points of a… — Christian Friedrich Schonbein
• [The original development of the Spinning Mule was a] continual endeavour to realise a more perfect principle of spinning; and… — Samuel Crompton
• Like all mystics (and many novelists, not least the present one) he is baffled, a child, before the real now;… — John Fowles

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